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Six Flags AstroWorld. I still can't believe it's gone, and still can't believe it's a freakin' parking lot now.

My elementary school closed down. Good riddance, honestly.

I have a similar waterpark story except mine closed around 2005. It was my first job and I would ride my bike to and from there and goofed off with my highschool friends, all while getting paid for most of the summer. It was closed the next year and later demolished and a huge mansion erected in it's wake.

There's no grave marker for the old mall in my home town. Just a new, totally different mall.

An elementary school was torn down and a replacement built right next to it, on the same grounds. The old school I attended is now the new parking lot.

The church I attended as a child is gone. Luckily my belief was torn down years before that happened.

In essence my high school doesn't exist, at least not as it did. It was dramatically reconstructed and hardly resembles the school I went to.

Of course these were things that were old when I knew them, and only continued to age to the point they needed replacing. The oldest stuff in my home town though, will outlast me.

This may be a weird answer, but I played Celtic music with the family band as a teenager and our favorite place to play was Santa Rosa Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, CA. Great vibe, good food—I of course was too young to partake of the brew 😉—but it was a lot of fun and we had a crowd of regulars who'd come to see us perform every time. When they eventually closed down, it felt like the end of an era…

K Mart, It is now a Walmart.
And the forest reclaims the land.

Soviet Union. Not necessarily a bad thing, but there is some nostalgia...

Would this happen to be Breakers waterpark? If not, I guess it's just a common story lol

Gone but not forgotten is Gameworks. I still have a card with $7 on it that I'll never get to use

A roundabout in my home city was turned into an elevated 4-way intersection. It wasn't an improvement. When I visualize the city I always see the roundabout. It was there all my life.

Very specific, but folks in the DMV of a certain age will remember this.

Story Book Land

MY HOUSE
Had to get demolished to make way for a lightrail
kinda cool to have the key to a place that no longer exists at least

A skatepark near me. Don't know the story behind it being closed.

There used to be a nice little place in the woods, near my house, where people used to walk their dogs, light off fireworks, smoke a little weed and just get out of the house to hang out. There used to be a little ranger shack out there because it used to be a place where people would go as an actual park before it became run down. About 10 years ago some development company associated with the New England Patriots announced that they were going to build an indoor sports field thing for soccer and flag football and stuff like that. Long story short none of that happened and what the company did was they worked with the city to start tearing down old buildings from all around the city, and then dumping the debris and waste in the area. They promised they would build a sports facility in. Needless to say, local residents were shocked and appalled because it was in a heavy residential neighborhood less than a half mile from a school, and it was completely illegal and unethical. I proceeded to contact every local newspaper, and even Erin Brockovich and her foundation. To date nothing has been done really about the gigantic piles of waste in building debris, except that the company was ordered to stop doing so in a town meeting where a state reps showed up.

Abu’s in Milwaukee, where I had my first solid food

The Kindergarten I went to doesn't exist any more.

Hastings’s stores. They sold books, CDs, DVDs, tabletop game supplies, video games etc. It was always exciting to go and look even if my parents were not going to buy me anything.

My elementary school was heavily renovated the year after I "graduated" sixth grade. It's not the same place anymore, and I have a lot of memories and nostalgia tied up with that old building — among other things, it's where I met the woman who'd become my wife.

Zellers

I'm getting old enough now where this is true for multiple things, but the ones that come to mind would be my schools - 2 of the 3 schools I attended have since been demolished. My high school is still standing, but the elementary and Junior High schools are gone now.

You perfectly described a water park in my home town, although mine closed down in the 1990s. It had a "silver bullet" slide, a bunch of conventional slides and a tube slide, a lazy river, a wave pool, a pretty decent arcade and a go-kart track, and probably a bunch of other stuff I don't remember from spending big chunks of my childhood summers there. Birthday parties and school trips, too.

After it closed down, some of the slides were moved to a golf course across town that wanted to expand, but it wasn't as good and it was way too far to go by bus. The original park is the loading dock for a Home Depot now.

A chain of restaurants called Happy Chef. They were all around the Iowa/ Minnesota area. Used to stop at them when going to visit family.

Wet and Wild

There was a riverfront park that got turned into a staging area for a river infrastructure project that never got turned back into a park again. I have some canon memories there.

There used to be a small skating rink around me that's not open anymore. There's a few others I just really liked that one.

There was an Arby's near my home where I would get Jamocha shakes as a treat either as a reward or after special events. One day it was closed and soon after it became a pile of gravel, and now there stands a parking garage.